gh, upon
me and upon those others on earth who are enamoured of her well-beloved
name.

O thou Scion of Baha! I weep over thee in the night season, as do the
bereaved; and at break of day I cry out unto thee with the tongue of my
heart, my limbs and members, and again and again I repeat thy well-loved
name, and I groan over the loss of thee, over thy meekness and ordeals,
and how thou didst love me, over the sufferings thou didst bear, and the
terrible calamities, and the wretchedness and the griefs, and the
abasement, and the rejection--and all this only and solely for the sake of
thy Lord and because of thy burning love for those, out of all of
creation, who shared in thine ardour.

Whensoever, in sleep, I call to mind and see thy smiling face, whensoever,
by day or night, I circumambulate thine honoured tomb, then in the
innermost depths of my being are rekindled the fires of yearning, and the
cord of my patience is severed, and again the tears come and all the world
grows dark before my eyes. And whensoever I remember what blows were
rained upon thee at the close of thy days, the discomforts, trials and
illnesses--and I picture thy surroundings now, in the Sanctuary on High, in
the midmost heart of Heaven, beside the pavilions of grandeur and might;
and I behold thy present glory, thy deliverance, the delights, the
bounties, the bestowals, the majesty and dominion and power, the joy,
thine exultation, and thy triumph--then the burden of my grieving is
lightened, the cloud of sorrow is dispelled, the heat of my torment
abates. Then is my tongue loosed to praise and thank thee, and thy Lord,
Him Who did fashion thee and did prefer thee to all other handmaidens, and
did give thee to drink from His sweet-scented lips, Who withdrew the veil
of concealment from thy true being and made thee to be a true example for
all thy kin to follow, and caused thee to be the fragrance of His garment
for all of creation.

And at such times I strengthen my resolve to follow in thy footsteps, and
to continue onward in the pathway of thy love; to take thee as my model,
and to acquire the qualities, and to make manifest that which thou didst
desire for the triumph of this exalted and exacting, this most
resplendent, sacred, and wondrous Cause.

Then intercede thou for me before the throne of the Almighty, O thou who,
within the Company on High, dost intercede for all of humankind. Deliver
me from the throes of my mourning, and confer u